crookneck squash

I'm not interested in hundred-foot rocks shaped like crookneck squash.

So when school groups visited this spring, the students went home with a packet of crookneck squash seeds to plant in their own gardens.

In fact, the first crop of green crookneck squash elicits (as first encounters often do) a flutter of excitement.

It is also known as straightneck squash to distinguish it from its close relative, the yellow crookneck squash.

Cushaw (also called "winter crookneck squash")

The Vice President was standing in the kitchen looking into a box of vegetables, crookneck squash and dark purple eggplants, tomatoes and sweet yellow onions.

He may have been referring to Cucurbita moschata Duchesne, crookneck squash.

Although considered a winter squash, acorn squash belongs to the same species as all summer squashes (including zucchini and yellow crookneck squash).

Yellow crookneck squash is one of the many cultivars of Cucurbita pepo, the species that also includes some pumpkins and most other summer squashes.

A biotech yellow crookneck squash has been developed to resist zucchini yellow mosaic virus (and watermelon mosaic virus (WMV)).

He buys the vegetables himself, rising at 4:30 each morning and driving to a farmers' market to hunt down almost-forgotten items like cushaw, a baby crookneck squash that he serves candied.

Most of his plants are 18th- and 19th-century varieties like scarlet runner beans, dwarf white sugar peas, flageolet beans, cow's horn okra and yellow crookneck squash, which he buys from the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants (P.O. Box 317, Charlottesville, Va. 22902).